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  Mandarin
It was based on the pronunciation of the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, the grammar of Northern Mandarin, and the vocabulary used in colloquial speech.
Mandarin plays the role of a lingua franca in PRC, Taiwan, and Singapore, and is taught in schools to facilitate communication among people who speak a variety of mutually unintelligible languages and dialects.
Mandarin is considered to be a Category III language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/may/Mandarin.html   (2182 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mandarin (linguistics)
Mandarin or Beifanghua is a category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
Standard Mandarin functions as the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China, the official language of the Republic of China (Taiwan), and one of the four official languages of Singapore.
However, both versions of "school" Standard Mandarin are often quite different from the Mandarin dialects that are spoken in accordance with regional habits, and neither is identical to even Beijing dialect.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Mandarin_(linguistics)   (1990 words)

  
 Mandarin (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Standard Mandarin functions as the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China, the official language of the Taiwan, and one of the four official languages of Singapore.
to all of the Mandarin dialects spoken in northern and southwestern China.
The presence of Mandarin in southwest China is largely due to a plague in the 12th century in Sichuan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mandarin_(linguistics)   (2089 words)

  
 What is Mandarin?
Mandarin is a large grouping of dialects which is commonly referred to as a single language.
Mandarin comes closest to meeting what people tend to mean when they use "Chinese" to describe a language, but even so differs greatly from most Westerners' concept of a national language.
Mandarin is a tonal language, with the tones used to pronounce words making up a large part of the semantic value of the word itself.
www.wisegeek.com /what-is-mandarin.htm   (455 words)

  
 HLW: Introduction: Dialects and Languages
The standard dialect is often the only dialect that is written, and it is the one that is taught in schools and (with some exceptions) used in the media.
The non-standard dialects have less prestige, and their use may be discouraged in formal situations, not just situations in which writing is called for.
At this point the words dialect and language become politically charged terms because the supporters of official status for the non-standard dialect may feel the need to argue that it is not "just" a dialect of the larger language but rather a language in its own right.
www.indiana.edu /~hlw/Introduction/dialects.html   (3345 words)

  
 Mandarin dialects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mandarin varieties in the Lower Plateau in Shaanxi are not readily intelligible with Putonghua [Standard Mandarin].
Mandarin varieties of Guilin and Kunming are inherently unintelligible to speakers of Putonghua.
For example, the Mandarin spoken in Taiwan by students who speak Taiwanese (a dialect of Southern Min) or Hakka as their mother tongue is usually spoken with a grammar and accent that renders it different from the Kuoyu standard, creating a version of Mandarin commonly known as Taiwanese Mandarin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dialects_of_Mandarin   (1971 words)

  
 Spoken Chinese Summary
Wu dialects (77 million speakers in Zhejiang Province and in Jiangsu Province south of the Chang River) such as Shanghaiese are notable for their extensive tone sandhi (changing the tone of a syllable depending on context).
In southern China where the difference between Standard Mandarin and the local dialect is particularly pronounced, well-educated Chinese are generally fluent in Standard Mandarin, and most people have at least a good passive knowledge of it, in addition to being native speakers of the local dialect.
The Min dialects are often regarded as being furthest removed linguistically from Standard Mandarin, in phonology, grammar, and vocabulary.
www.bookrags.com /Spoken_Chinese   (3104 words)

  
 Shanghai Dialect Introduction
Linguists who emphasize the dialect status of Chinese topolects (the bulk of whom are Chinese) counter-argue that the Chinese situation cannot be adequately judged by Western conventions precisely because of the existence of characters and their morphosyllabic nature (capable of representing both morphemes and words).
Due to the existing large population size of Mandarin speakers in China (70% of all Chinese), its relative phonological simplicity, and its adoption as the court language of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Mandarin (specifically the Beijing dialect) was selected as the base for the new national common language.
The fate of the dialect is still uncertain although it has become increasingly apparent that the unique identity attached with the Shanghainese dialect is something that will continue to be cherished by the Shanghainese as they try to re-carve a cultural niche for themselves.
www.zanhei.com /intro.html   (2355 words)

  
 Linguistic Features of the Chinese Language Family
Mandarin has four tones: The first is a high, level tone; the second starts mid-range and rises; the third starts mid-low, falls, then rises; and the fourth starts high and falls sharply.
Dialect distinctions are common in any language extending over a relatively large area, or even a relatively small one where geographic features traditionally have precluded easy communication.
Dialects of the Mandarin group are spoken in three-quarters of the country by two-thirds of the population--one important reason why Mandarin was chosen for the national language (see the section on National Language)--and are for the most part mutually intelligible.
servercc.oakton.edu /~billtong/chinaclass/Language/linguistics.htm   (1704 words)

  
 Eternity, the Language of China - Chinese Dialects
The people of each province have a special dialect, and then the people of each city, town, and village have their own special dialect as well.
Mandarin is the national dialect or the main language of China.
Taiwanese is the dialect used in Taiwan in addition to Mandarin.
library.thinkquest.org /20443/dialects.html   (171 words)

  
 Edge Translation
Mandarin is the official language in mainland China and Taiwan.
Historically, all written Chinese languages or dialects used the same basic script However there are usually differences in the meanings of the words.
Many dialects in China don't have written scripts, this is down to a number of reasons, it could be that they never had one in the first place, or that over time the number of users has diminished until the use of the written script has died out all together.
www.edgetranslation.net /mandarin1.htm   (392 words)

  
 Mandarin
Mandarin is the predominant form of the Chinese language.
Most Chinese speak one of the Mandarin dialects, which are largely mutually intelligible.
Mandarin is spoken in China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia, United States, Mongolia, Viet Nam, Brunei, South Africa, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Canada and Mauritius.
www.flw.com /languages/mandarin.htm   (68 words)

  
 Differences in Chinese Dialects - China History Forum, chinese history forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
I've read recently that the Chinese "dialects", such as Mandarin and Cantonese, not only have sound differences (meaning words are spoken differently), but the sentence structure and grammar are different as well.
Mandarin and Cantonese, strictly speaking, are two complete different languages, muutally unintelligible, although both languages uses the common writing form.
While Mandarin and Cantonese are not what you'd consider "dialects", but they are not to the level of being separate languages.
www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=223   (1470 words)

  
 yax-125 Mandarin and the Southern Chinese
In contrast, the Nanjing dialect of Mandarin is intelligible to the residents of Harbin, 2100 km away.
The southerners refused to recognise the supremacy of the Mandarin dialects and insisted that the southern speech (despite their innumerable versions) was more authentic to historical Chinese pronunciation.
This Guanhua was the original "Mandarin Chinese", since it was the language spoken by the mandarins.
www.yawningbread.org /arch_1998/yax-125.htm   (5189 words)

  
 VARIETIES
With particular focus on North American English dialects, the effort is aimed at describing linguistic diversity and regional variation existing in the United States.
The role of constraints is illustrated by dialects of the Swedish language.
This project is aimed at mapping the linguistic diversity of Japan, its minority languages and dialects.
www.people.iup.edu /rfjm/sociolinguistics/languagevarieties.htm   (464 words)

  
 Comparison of Mandarin phonetic transcription systems
Mandarin syllables are divided into two parts: initials (consonants) and finals (vowels, diphthongs, triphthongs or vowels + n or ng).
The pronunciation shown below is for the Mandarin spoken in the north of China, particularly by educated speakers in Beijing.
The most noticable difference in southern dialects of Mandarin is that the initials zh, ch and sh sound like z, c and s respectively.
www.omniglot.com /writing/mandarin_pts.htm   (227 words)

  
 Melange vol.4: Multilingual Page Part I
So there are more dialects in the South than in the North, the major language is Mandarin Chinese, but even that, again there is a slight variation between provinces, villages.
Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokken (minnan), Wu, (Hunan), Xiang are the major dialects.
Mandarin is an official language, but it can be considered as one of the dialects Actually because the written language is the same, people call them dialects.
www.geocities.com /melange8c/04/ML/pt1.html   (1303 words)

  
 'Tom and Jerry' climb Chinese wall | www.azstarnet.com ®
Dubbed into regional Chinese dialects, the warring cat and mouse have been huge TV hits - and a good way to pass home-grown culture down to the younger generation, programmers say.
Use of dialects may even be strengthening in some areas with strong local identities, sometimes for economic reasons.
In Guangzhou (that's Mandarin for the great southern city of Canton), broadcasters are allowed to speak Cantonese to compete with the nearby Hong Kong stations.
www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/51097   (533 words)

  
 Quality-Driven Chinese Learning Software, Chinese Electronic Dictionaries, tools to Learn Chinese</u>   <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> One distinctive feature of <b>Mandarin</b> is the partial loss of <a href="/topics/Tone-%28linguistics%29" title="Tone %28linguistics%29" class=fl>tones</a> in comparison to Middle Chinese and the other <b>dialects</b>. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>dialects</b> spoken, there are usually few formal methods for learning a local <b>dialect</b>. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The Min <b>dialects</b> are often regarded as the <b>dialects</b> furthest removed from Standard <b>Mandarin</b>, in phonology,</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.firstmandarin.com /Articles.html</font>   (1619 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Greater numbers speak Mandarin</u>   <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The coexistence and different uses of <b>Mandarin</b> and <b>dialects</b> are a unique proclivity of the current Chinese language, said Tong. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> As a standard language, <b>Mandarin</b> is widely used as the communication medium during public activities while people use the <b>dialect</b> native to their area or province when communicating within their family or with other native speakers. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Hu Hongguang, a middle school teacher who speaks <b>Mandarin</b> in class in Central China's <a href="/topics/Hubei" title="Hubei" class=fl>Hubei</a> Province said there are three criteria to judge the popularization of the language: how it is used in schools and whether it is used as a working language and as the mainstream tongue on social occasions.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-12/26/content_403419.htm</font>   (580 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.famouschinese.com/virtual/Chinese_spoken_language">Chinese spoken language - Learn Chinese - Chinese</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Mandarin</b> (linguistics)Mandarin 北方話/北方话: This is the mother <b>dialect</b> of Chinese living in northern and southwestern China. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <a href="/topics/Wu-%28linguistics%29" title="Wu %28linguistics%29" class=fl>Wu</a> <b>dialect</b> is notable among Chinese <b>dialects</b> in having kept voiced consonants, such as /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/, etc. (These may in fact be better described as voiceless consonants that create a voiced breathy element across the syllable: i.e. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In southern China where the difference between Standard <b>Mandarin</b> and the local <b>dialect</b> is particularly pronounced, well-educated Chinese are generally fluent in <b>Mandarin</b>, and most people have at least a good passive knowledge of it, in addition to being native speakers of the local <b>dialect</b>.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Chinese_spoken_language</font>   (1926 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Chinese Language and Dialects - Chinese Culture</u>   <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> While there is almost an unlimited number of Chinese <b>dialects</b> that make up the country, generally scholars recognize anywhere from seven to eleven of them as the major <b>dialects</b> of the country. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Thus the divisions within a <b>dialect</b> are often referred to base on where they originate, such as the "Bejing <b>Dialect</b> of <b>Mandarin"</b> or simply just "Bejing <b>Dialect"</b>. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Within the <b>Mandarin</b> <b>dialect</b>, there are a variety of variations that change the sound of the words to being "softer" or "harder", very similar to how people in Boston drop their "r"s and people in Texas tend to roll their words more.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.bellaonline.com /articles/art30077.asp</font>   (542 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=cmn">Ethnologue report for language code:cmn</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Hezhouhoua is spoken in the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture and Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of southern <a href="/topics/Gansu" title="Gansu" class=fl>Gansu</a> Province, and in neighboring areas in Qinghai Province. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Putonghua is inherently intelligible with the <a href="/topics/Beijing" title="Beijing" class=fl>Beijing</a> <b>dialect</b>, and other <b>Mandarin</b> varieties in the northeast. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Mandarin</b> varieties in the Lower Plateau in <a href="/topics/Shaanxi" title="Shaanxi" class=fl>Shaanxi</a> are not readily intelligible with Putonghua.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=cmn</font>   (580 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Dialects</u>   <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> However, within each of these <b>dialects</b>, there are a lot of related <b>dialects</b> which are the main means of communications within local villages. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> To me, this <b>dialect</b> is not much different from a total foreign language like Czech, Japanese and Italian, which without prior learning, I wouldn't be able to understand a word. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Mandarin</b> is the most-spoken Chinese <b>dialect</b> in the world (about 885 million) and it is also one of the five official languages in the United Nations.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.fi.muni.cz /usr/wong/teaching/chinese/notes/node12.html</font>   (984 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.chrissimpson.com/chinese.html">Chris Simpson's personal page.</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Mandarin</b> is the official national language (or <b>dialect</b>, again, depending on whom you ask) of China, and with over 1 billion speakers worldwide, it's the most widely-spoken language in the world. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Mandarin's</b> <a href="/topics/Tone-%28linguistics%29" title="Tone %28linguistics%29" class=fl>tones</a> are difficult to for most people to master, but people learning this <b>dialect</b> versus <a href="/topics/Cantonese-%28linguistics%29" title="Cantonese %28linguistics%29" class=fl>Cantonese</a> definitely get off easy. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Whereas the <b>Mandarin</b> <b>dialect</b> tends to be punctuated by softly pronounced consonants and vowels, the <a href="/topics/Cantonese-%28linguistics%29" title="Cantonese %28linguistics%29" class=fl>Cantonese</a> <b>dialect</b> tends to have more abrupt, gluttural sounds.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.chrissimpson.com /chinese.html</font>   (3500 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>China History Forum, chinese history forum > Differences in Chinese Dialects</u>   <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Jun 21 2004, 10:13 PM I've read recently that the Chinese <b>"dialects"</b>, such as <b>Mandarin</b> and <a href="/topics/Cantonese-%28linguistics%29" title="Cantonese %28linguistics%29" class=fl>Cantonese</a>, not only have sound differences (meaning words are spoken differently), but the sentence structure and <a href="/topics/Grammar" title="Grammar" class=fl>grammar</a> are different as well. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Jun 27 2004, 10:21 PM <b>Mandarin</b> and <a href="/topics/Cantonese-%28linguistics%29" title="Cantonese %28linguistics%29" class=fl>Cantonese</a>, strictly speaking, are two complete different languages, muutally unintelligible, although both languages uses the common writing form. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Jul 13 2004, 02:10 PM modern <a href="/topics/Cantonese-%28linguistics%29" title="Cantonese %28linguistics%29" class=fl>cantonese</a> and <b>mandarin</b> is not that different.(I figured that out after watching many HK tv shows i can now watch them without subtitle" The pronounciation for catonese is very different from <b>mandarin</b>, but the <a href="/topics/Grammar" title="Grammar" class=fl>grammar</a> is not that different.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.chinahistoryforum.com /lofiversion/index.php/t223.html</font>   (1323 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><script language="JavaScript"> <!-- // This function displays the ad results. // It must be defined above the script that calls show_ads.js // to guarantee that it is defined when show_ads.js makes the call-back. function google_ad_request_done(google_ads) { // Proceed only if we have ads to display! if (google_ads.length < 1 ) return; 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